gimcrackery

Despite himself; Sam's face showed his interest in the electronic gimcrackery.

What all this plating and gimcrackery must add to the cost!

They disguised its appearance with a little bit of stone gimcrackery.

Only someone whose life contains very little else, one feels, would treasure a piece of gimcrackery like this.

I wanted to shout, as all the paraphernalia and gimcrackery of show business poured out.

Many of the film's special effects smack of gimcrackery.

Most Kabukiesque of all, she incorporated gimcrackery from the West.

"To me," she continued, "P-1 doesn't exist as a piece of technological gimcrackery.

"But I can't prove that wasn't because of Lady's gimcrackery."

Was going to middleman some e-commerce gimcrackery.

He broke his silence with a wondering, "And you - you know all about this - this gimcrackery?"

He was no judge in these matters, but he collected indefatigably, until they were barely able to see out over the mountains of gimcrackery.

I've reached the point where I believe that gadgets are self-replicating to the point where my whole life is a sea of gimcrackery and doodads.

And so on, with feel-good, good-cause public-relations gimcrackery, rhymes with quackery.

"The great Mr. Acton taken in by a bit of Palais Royal gimcrackery!

I got every piece of gimcrackery anybody ever thought of when they were staging this overblown turkey, and I got a guaranteed opening night sellout.

Athletic companies are constantly unveiling whiz-bang gimcrackery constructed in nanotechnological polymers in dizzying stripes and colors.

It is typical of the mental gimcrackery that passes for a public philosophy these days that our rulers are suddenly frantic to grant boons to the middle class.

Winogrand recognized these manifestations of a new America, with its familiar dreams of prosperity and leisure, and also all the gimcrackery that went along with it.

"I've been thinking of Leggett in terms of Dumas, and you bring me a piece of gimcrackery out of O. Henry.

A thought occurred: All the tasteless gimcrackery that Tunk was transferring to the treasure hold was undoubtedly old stuff, toys of which he had long ago grown tired.

In the midst of his later meditations on the universe's blind cruelty, he "cherished the memory of belief," as if it were an original stone church underneath all the neo-Gothic gimcrackery.

The commerce of Lucerne consists mainly in gimcrackery of the souvenir sort; the shops are packed with Alpine crystals, photographs of scenery, and wooden and ivory carvings.

Many displayed the usual sorts of gimcrackery still sold as the bones of this or that saint, the feather of an angel, pieces of the True Cross and so on.

'Batman' Foils the Pirates As the summer's national bat binge generates its piles of bogus Batman gimcrackery, there's concern that the counterfeiting could reach right to the film itself.